Here is what we know as facts now and it should worry every American. A political party, the Democrat National Committee, and a Presidential candidate’s (Hillary Clinton) campaign paid a company Fusion GPS to put together a file of documents (referred to as a dossier) to be used to defeat the opposing Presidential candidate (Donald Trump). It has come to light that the Clinton campaign feed false information to Fusion which became part of the dossier. And we have learned that Christopher Steele, the person at Fusion GPS who put together the false dossier, leaked info to Yahoo news who reported it.

Fusion initially tried to leak the details of the dossier to the media to harm the Trump campaign. Only a couple of outlets bit on the information. Even the main stream media, who were working had to take Trump out, passed on the information because they knew it was bogus. The dossier was later used by the Obama administration to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. The yahoo story was used to corroborate the dossier. So, the dossier was corroborated by the author.

FISA warrants require renewals every ninety days. Then-FBI-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications on behalf of the FBI, and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Signing on behalf of the DOJ were the Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, and current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of the Department of Justice.

In December 2017, then FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe testified under oath that “no surveillance warrant would have been sought” from the FISA court “without the Steele dossier information.” So in another words the warrants were obtained under false pretenses.

This is chilling. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, signed into law in 1978, requires the government, when eavesdropping on communications on domestic soil for national security purposes, to obtain permission from a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The judge must agree that the target is probably an agent of a foreign power and will probably use the specific email accounts or phone numbers that the Justice Department wants to wiretap. The Patriot Act amended FISA and greatly expanded the scope of surveillance allowed under US law. Foreign intelligence information could now be gathered from both Americans and foreigners. Government agencies no longer needed to prove that a target is an agent of a foreign power. The maximum duration of surveillance and investigations were lengthened.

Americans were generally ok with these processes because of the threat of terrorism. However, the risk of abuse is high and Libertarians and the ACLU opposed this because of this risk of abuse. Here and now we have experienced the abuse that many feared might happen. A sitting President knowingly used false information which was paid for by his Party to obtain warrants to spy on the opposing Party’s candidate. This is much more serious of a scandal than Watergate yet the media has suppressed this from half of America. This is expected. And the ACLU’s silence is expected as well. But why are the Libertarians silent?

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The Democrats are in a state of denial about Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. They are so arrogant that they could not conceive of losing, thinking rather of a landslide victory. Hillary did not even prepare a concession speech so she had to go into hiding on election night. The main stream media are just as perplexed. By any measure when you look at all races, including State races, it was an overwhelming victory for the GOP. Below is a map that shows that with the exception of the two coasts the country is dominantly Republican.

When you look at it by county it is even more illustrative.

A look at the numbers is helpful.

The press and many Democrats focus on the fact that Trump lost the popular vote, a totally meaningless metric. Trump did fall short of Clinton’s total by 1.3 million votes, but if you take out California votes Trump has a 2.1 million vote edge. This illustrates the brilliance of our Founding Fathers. They created a Republic, not a Democracy to avoid the tyranny of a few and to preserve the powers of the States. Sadly there are many Americans who are not aware of this fact because our schools no longer teach American history.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign blames the loss on the racism of the white population. This is so ridiculous and desperate. Barack Obama was elected twice as our President and attracted a high percent of white votes. Plus Trump won Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin, States that Obama won. Are they all of a sudden racist States? Hillary did not even campaign in Wisconsin. The Party just cannot accept the fact that they ran a terrible candidate who is now a two time loser. Clinton ran a campaign of “I’m with Her” rather than providing substantive proposals to help spur economic growth, protect our border and put back the record number of Americans that are out of a job back to work. The Democrats after the 2014 election felt that they did not need the white middle class voters. Her calling Trump supporters part of a basket of “deplorables” was very telling, and a slip made through arrogance.

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A high school (let’s call it Team USA) has a football team that has won state championships for the last 10 years. Their longtime coach announced his retirement. A young energetic man is hired to replace him. He gives several speeches before his first season apologizing for Team USA because they have been unsportsmanlike for many years, winning many games and with high margins of victory. He says that Team USA is not exceptional but rather are just another high school team, no better or worse than the rest.

He convenes his players for his first season. He tells the players that he is here to fundamentally change the team. He said don’t expect big margins of victories, that hurts the self-esteem of our opponents. Winning is not everything. We will try to contain our opponents, holding them from scoring but will refrain from fielding an intrusive and aggressive offense.

He announces the starting line-up. The 3 year all-state starter at quarterback is on the bench, replaced by a freshman with no experience at quarterback (Suzie Ryce). The all state middle linebacker and defensive captain is on the bench, replaced by a sophomore weighing 50 pounds less than the captain (Johnnie Carry). The speedy tailback has been replaced with a frumpy slow sophomore (Hillary Clintstone). Coach points out that there are about the same number of starters from each class and an equal number of girls and boys which is much fairer than past teams.

The season ended with a disappointing 0-9 record. The coach calls it a great year, saying we achieved all of our goals. He says to expect future seasons to resemble this one. The fans are outraged. The school principal stands by his coach and exclaims that the fans “are just not capable of understanding “.

On the day when America mourns the loss of the victims of the Islamic terrorist attack on the New York World Trade Towers and the Pentagon on 9-11-2001, our embassy in Cairo, Egypt was attacked, again by Islamic protestors. The demonstrators climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy and pulled down the American flag to protest a film they say is insulting to the prophet Mohammad. In its place they raised a black flag carrying the slogan: “There is no god but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger.” Al Ahram online says the film is reportedly being produced by U.S.-based Coptic-Christian Egyptians with the support of the Terry Jones Church in the United States. Jones is the evangelical pastor who stirred controversy last year by threatening to burn a Quran in public. CNN says the film in question is a Dutch production.

After the protest, the U.S. Embassy issued this statement on its website.

“The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of other.”

Wow, we apologize to Muslim terrorists who attacked us on sovereign American soil on the anniversary of 9-11. There have been several anti-Christian and anti-Semitic movies made over the years without violent protests from those groups. And these movies receive praise from the left as expressions of free speech. We even give grants to “artists” who do great works like piss Christ.

Later in Libya our U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi was attacked by armed terrorists. The American ambassador and three staff members were killed by the gunmen. There was no immediate comment from the State Department in Washington.

Of course there was a lot of fallout for the apology. The Obama administration tried to distance itself from it. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, however, re-affirmed its apologetic stance that was disavowed earlier by the White House. Trouble in paradise? Clinton is in lockstep with how Obama would have handled this situation in the past. Obama openly supported the radical Muslim brotherhood’s takeover of the Egyptian government. He even sent funds to them to help them get started. Yes our taxes were used to fund an Islamic terrorist group. Had this been in his second term Obama probably would have been proud of the terrorists. However, that pesky little thing called an election looms over Obama’s head. Thus he is avoiding the apology. But he is not showing the leadership that we expect from our President when we are attacked. Makes you wonder how America would be now if Obama was President on 9-11-2001 rather than George W. Bush. That is a very scary thought. November cannot come fast enough.

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